Journalist
Dave Freedman has worked as a journalist since 1978, primarily in the fields of law, business (especially finance and marketing), personal finance, and technology. From 1978 to 1999, he served on the editorial staffs of consumer, business, professional, and trade periodicals. As a freelance journalist since 1999, he has authored feature articles for dozens of national and local magazines, newsletters, newspapers, and online media. He has collaborated on magazine and newsletter articles—as a coauthor, editor, and ghostwriter—with lawyers, accountants, financial planners, and other professional advisers.

Dave has also written extensively about real estate, economics, consumerism, home improvement, woodworking, and other topics.

Rich website content
Dave has developed award-winning websites for small professional firms, and has created journalism-level content for existing firm websites. He has spoken at conferences on Internet public relations strategies and techniques, including social media optimization (SMO).

Newsletter & blog writer/developer
Dave has helped firms develop and write client newsletters (distributed by professional service firms to their clients, prospects, and referral sources) and employee newsletters. He successfully launched and marketed a commercial newsletter in the real estate development field (distributed only to paid subscribers).

Dave has written extensively on the techniques of newsletter writing and publishing (see a list of articles). He has appeared on TV and spoken to professional associations about topics related to newsletters, non-fiction writing, and business communications.

Dave builds blogs using the WordPress and TypePad CMS platforms.

4YRP: For Your Reading Pleasure
Freedman's blogs feature reviews of books, DVDs, and other media:

4YRP-Law    Law & Justice
4YRP-F&E   Finance & Economics
SnoozLooz   Innovations in Web Content

Media relations
Since 1999, Dave has helped legal and financial advisers get interviewed, quoted, and featured in the media, including print, broadcast, and online media. (See client list.) He has helped professionals write bylined feature articles and place them in print and electronic publications. He won a Your Honor Award from the Legal Marketing Association (LMA) for public relations in 2001.

Dave is a coauthor of Under Your Byline: 7 Steps to Getting Your Bylined Articles Published (www.byline7.com). He has written articles on media relations strategies and techniques for publications such as Law Practice (ABA, Strategies (LMA), the LawMarketing Portal, Chicago Lawyer, FindLaw, and Communication World (IABC). He is also the founder of Law Marketing Bibliography.

Author
Dave has been involved in five successful non-fiction book projects:

Dave coauthored Death of an American (Continuum, New York, 1983). The book is based on the $100 million Singer vs. Wadman civil rights lawsuit filed in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1979.

He wrote Box-Making Basics, a woodworking book (Taunton Press, Newtown, CT, 1997), which has sold 64,000 copies.

Dave edited Information Nation: Seven Keys to Information Management Compliance, by Randolph Kahn, attorney, and Barclay Blair, management consultant (AIIM, Silver Spring, MD, 2004).

Dave wrote Chapter 45, on marketing communications, of the book Flying Solo: A Survival Guide for the Solo and Small Firm Lawyer, Fourth Edition (ABA, Chicago, 2005).

He is a coauthor Under Your Byline: 7 Steps to Getting Your Bylined Articles Published—in the Publications that Matter Most (www.byline7.com).

Awards
Dave has received awards for magazine feature writing, financial magazine editing, website content, newsletter writing, legal journalism, and media relations.

Workshops
Dave has served on the faculty of non-fiction writing workshops, including the SEAK workshop for lawyers.